The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to im­me­di­ate­ly re­move At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi for his al­leged in­volve­ment in the Box­ing Day par­ty boat de­ba­cle.

Mark is al­so call­ing for the “silent” Prime Min­is­ter to take ac­tion against three oth­er se­nior Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters and warned that the Op­po­si­tion would not al­low what they called “this cov­er-up” to take place.

Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Wade Mark yes­ter­day host­ed a me­dia con­fer­ence to call for the AG’s head and to al­so call out the Prime Min­is­ter for his con­tin­ued si­lence on the mat­ter.

Mark re­hashed a lot of in­for­ma­tion al­ready in the pub­lic do­main on this is­sue where busi­ness­man Adri­an Scoon, son of Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon, was de­tained by po­lice on Box­ing Day us­ing his ves­sel, the MV Ocean Pel­i­can to host over 100 peo­ple.

Scoon de­nied that the ves­sel was be­ing used as a par­ty boat and said he was giv­en ad­vice from the AG be­fore he sought to con­vert the ves­sel in­to a float­ing restau­rant.

Scoon al­so wrote to Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh who told him it was up to the po­lice. Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert al­so sought to re­move him­self from the is­sue, say­ing that he did not au­tho­rise or ap­prove Scoon’s spe­cial liquor li­cense.

Scoon has since sig­nalled his in­ten­tion to bring le­gal ac­tion against the Fi­nance Min­is­ter for re­scind­ing his liquor li­cense and said that he would in­clude the AG’s of­fice and the Min­istry of Health in his law­suit.

Scoon said he called the AG when po­lice first ar­rived on the ves­sel.

“This pat­tern of be­hav­iour and con­duct rep­re­sents a fla­grant and brazen abuse of of­fice by the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al. His at­tempt to use COVID-19 pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions in or­der to fa­cil­i­tate a spe­cial li­cense through var­i­ous of­fice hold­ers, Min­is­ter of Health, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance in an ef­fort for this gen­tle­man to have what is called a float­ing restau­rant,” Mark said.

“The Min­is­ter of Fi­nance has been cap­tured in this ever-widen­ing net­work of play­ers in­volved in this un­for­giv­able and in­de­fen­si­ble saga that con­tin­ues to un­fold,” Mark said.

“These se­nior Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, the Min­is­ter of Health, the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance and the Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, along with the son of the son of the Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, along with all the share­hold­ers and own­ers of the MV Ocean Pel­i­can, all of these play­ers are in­volved,” he said.

Mark ques­tioned why act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob has not laid charges on Scoon yet.

“As we speak, no one has been charged. Why?” Mark asked.

“Is there one law for per­sons in­volved in this crim­i­nal mat­ter and there is an­oth­er law for us and oth­ers? Why? There were many in­stances in the past where many peo­ple were ar­rest­ed, where you in­vad­ed their spaces while they were hav­ing pri­vate par­ties in vi­o­la­tion of the rules and they were charged im­me­di­ate­ly,” he said.

“How come in this in­stance, no one has been charged?” Mark asked.

Guardian Me­dia reached out to act­ing CoP Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob for an up­date but there was no re­sponse.